In section two of reading their are many people who ressemble the McCandless type from different authors Chris admires to other people in the story who have experienced similar situations.
Henry David Thoreau is a McCandless type because they are both into nature and they both believe that they don't need materilastic things to be happy in life. That god created this earth with beauty and adventure all around them, and happiness is in everything and anything you can experience. They share single-minded passion with the love of the wilderness. They both were lifelong virgins who believed in chasity.
A person in the book who follows the McCandless type is Gene Rosellini.He was like McCandless because he to changed his name, was a good athlete and a brilliant student. He obtained a perfect grade point average through high school and college, he too was into anthropology like Chris. He also believed getting high honors isn't worth it that the pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and no needed no external validation, and that is why he didn;t accept his degree.Like Chris he traveled to Alaska were he dined on natural resources to survive. The one thing that differs Rosellini from McCandless is that he was found lying facedown on the floor of his shack with a knife through is heart killing himself.
John Mallon Waterman also followed the McCandless type character. He was raised in the same Washington suburbs that gave shape to Chris McCandless. He was into nature and enjoyed rock climbing. Him and Chris had a different prespective of their fathers. Waterman was seeking more of his father because when his parents got divorced his dad pratically left him and his brothers, and McCandless was smuthered by his father and wanted him to let him go and be free. He too, as Chris had a journal and wrote notes about his journeys and what he experienced.There are a few things that set John aside from Chris one is that his moral were different then Chris' were, unlike Chris he believed in unrestricted sex and drugs. Also,what set John aside that athough he had been a significant success as a climber, he began to unravel mentally. After spending some time in a psychiatric facility, Waterman completed what literally turned out to be a suicide mission, climbing the mountain with little to no gear.
Carl McCunn is another person that comes across in the book as to have that McCandless type. He went to Alaska and got a paid a bush pilot Brookes Range, to photograph wildlife.While on McCandless' journey he too took pictures.His body was found dead in a river with boxes of shotgun shells in the river he couldn't take starvation anymore and killed himself by pulling the trigger. McCandless doesn't relate as much to McCunn as he does to some of the other people that come across in the book, but he was in a similar situation by the way he went into the wild alone.
Evert Ruess was one of the people that came across in the book that was most like McCandless who also seeked for a nomadic lifestyle.He was an artist and writer who explored nature including the High Sierras, California Coast and the deserts of the American southwest, invariably alone. His fate while traveling though a remote area of Utah has been a Western mystery for many years. He was an intelligent man who shared the same view of life as McCandless that you have to experience it to be happy. His disapperance at the age of 20, he went into the Utah dessert with two burros and never returned. The horse corral made at his camp in Davis Gluch was the only traces he left behind.
In the book on page 85 the author has an exert that also sheds light on the comparison of Chris McCandless and some of the other people mentioned in the book as to how they are similar and how they are different.
"McCandless was a seeker and had an impractical fascinations with the harsh side of nature. Like Waterman and McCunn, he displayed a staggering paucity of common sense. But unlike Waterman, McCandless wasn't mentall ill. And unlike McCunn, he didn't go into the bush assuming someone would atuomatically appear to save his bacon before he came to grief."
Henry David Thoreau is a McCandless type because they are both into nature and they both believe that they don't need materilastic things to be happy in life. That god created this earth with beauty and adventure all around them, and happiness is in everything and anything you can experience. They share single-minded passion with the love of the wilderness. They both were lifelong virgins who believed in chasity.
A person in the book who follows the McCandless type is Gene Rosellini.He was like McCandless because he to changed his name, was a good athlete and a brilliant student. He obtained a perfect grade point average through high school and college, he too was into anthropology like Chris. He also believed getting high honors isn't worth it that the pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and no needed no external validation, and that is why he didn;t accept his degree.Like Chris he traveled to Alaska were he dined on natural resources to survive. The one thing that differs Rosellini from McCandless is that he was found lying facedown on the floor of his shack with a knife through is heart killing himself.
John Mallon Waterman also followed the McCandless type character. He was raised in the same Washington suburbs that gave shape to Chris McCandless. He was into nature and enjoyed rock climbing. Him and Chris had a different prespective of their fathers. Waterman was seeking more of his father because when his parents got divorced his dad pratically left him and his brothers, and McCandless was smuthered by his father and wanted him to let him go and be free. He too, as Chris had a journal and wrote notes about his journeys and what he experienced.There are a few things that set John aside from Chris one is that his moral were different then Chris' were, unlike Chris he believed in unrestricted sex and drugs. Also,what set John aside that athough he had been a significant success as a climber, he began to unravel mentally. After spending some time in a psychiatric facility, Waterman completed what literally turned out to be a suicide mission, climbing the mountain with little to no gear.
Carl McCunn is another person that comes across in the book as to have that McCandless type. He went to Alaska and got a paid a bush pilot Brookes Range, to photograph wildlife.While on McCandless' journey he too took pictures.His body was found dead in a river with boxes of shotgun shells in the river he couldn't take starvation anymore and killed himself by pulling the trigger. McCandless doesn't relate as much to McCunn as he does to some of the other people that come across in the book, but he was in a similar situation by the way he went into the wild alone.
Evert Ruess was one of the people that came across in the book that was most like McCandless who also seeked for a nomadic lifestyle.He was an artist and writer who explored nature including the High Sierras, California Coast and the deserts of the American southwest, invariably alone. His fate while traveling though a remote area of Utah has been a Western mystery for many years. He was an intelligent man who shared the same view of life as McCandless that you have to experience it to be happy. His disapperance at the age of 20, he went into the Utah dessert with two burros and never returned. The horse corral made at his camp in Davis Gluch was the only traces he left behind.
In the book on page 85 the author has an exert that also sheds light on the comparison of Chris McCandless and some of the other people mentioned in the book as to how they are similar and how they are different.
"McCandless was a seeker and had an impractical fascinations with the harsh side of nature. Like Waterman and McCunn, he displayed a staggering paucity of common sense. But unlike Waterman, McCandless wasn't mentall ill. And unlike McCunn, he didn't go into the bush assuming someone would atuomatically appear to save his bacon before he came to grief."